Satire was probably the wrong word. I think I meant pastiche. Oh, one moment.

IF anything, I think it says that we don’t know what real violence looks like. Watch the Bud Dwyer suicide video (or, don’t) to see what it really looks like. There is a man standing there, he pulls out a gun, there’s a shot, then a small stream of blood from his mouth, a slight “deflating” of his head, and now there…

I think there is a point. Possibly more than in previous games. Here, the sheer overkill, with fatalities having multiple steps with one last thing to add insult to injury after the enemy is already most sincerely dead, strike me as just gory slapstick that, while entertaining in its own right, also satirizes such…

My quip reflex is feeling racist today. Reflexive reply: “Why? You from INS? If you’re from INS, he’s not here.”

Okay. This looks really good and fun. There’s also no fucking way I’m going to see it.

Interesting bit of trivia: You know how Chichi was always pushing Gohan to be studious, to the point that it actually started to hold him back despite him being potentially stronger than his father?

Uhh...are we still doing “phrasing”? We need to start doing “phrasing” again.

There’s a mod for PC that changes the victory message for Sif’s boss fight to “And then Sif teleported away”

I count myself as a Christian (with a lot of caveats that aren’t worth going into right now), and this just sickens me. I mean, holy shit guys, read your Bible! Jesus wasn’t just flipping tables in the temple as part of a Boke and Tsukkomi routine. Turning God’s house into a marketplace is the one thing in the Bible…

I disagree, kinda, on legit 1st amendment grounds. You can’t designate some subjects as political and others as not, and then discriminate by denying tax-exempt status to any church that broaches those topics in a way that you, the majority, or the government finds unacceptable.

A friend of the family’s 12 year old daughter once, in response to an innocent hug, jumped into my arms, wrapped her legs around my chest, kissed me on the mouth and told me how good I smelled. That’s a bit stronger come-on than she’s describing, and not something a kid who isn’t “at-risk” would probably do. My…

This reply is so tenuously related to the original post, I wonder if you have these at the ready and just copy/pasted the wrong one. If so, I applaud your foresight, I should perhaps consider it myself (it would at least cut down on my lengthier posts).

The reason no one wants to admit is right there in his name: White. Breaking Bad is a show about whiteness. Not merely starring a white man but being about the White man. He is promised the world, simply because of who he is, and when reality fails to deliver, it's everyone else's fault. Think of how pathetic Uncle…

I know it’s cool to hate on Ariel, but have you ever tried looking at it from a trans or queer reading?

Oh, the huge manatee!

Me, I’m amazed that they managed to actually be shocking. I mean, we’re so desensitized these days, that the old MK fatalities seem downright quaint. As much as I liked 9, I was worried it might be losing its edge.

Right, because Spike was such a broadly emotive character.

Odd thing is? It really isn't. Contrary to popular misconception, it does not take place under slavery. Admittedly, it's vision of post-reconstruction Southern sharecropping is way the fuck idealistic, but "idealized versions of problematic historical periods" hasn't sunk many, many other Disney movies.

Mankind is only mostly patriarchal, and even then it's way less black and white than you make it out to be. You are right that a lot of our current patriarchy stems from our biology: The long development cycle that's required to nurture our higher brain functions, the large size of our heads relative to the rest of…